Spider-Man creator to appear in videogame

Stan Lee, the man behind some of the biggest comic books characters known to man and mutant, will be making a characteristic cameo once again, this time in a videogame.

Q&A with Sony Canada's Matt Levitan

One of the worst-kept secrets of E3 2009 (alongside Microsoft's Project Natal control system) was Sony's revamped PlayStation Portable, the PSP Go. Not surprisingly, it took center stage at the company's press conference in Los Angeles earlier this month.

Relevance: 50 million Wiis and cheaper PS2s

As reported at the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo's Wii sales are up and the PlayStation2 price is down. No PlayStation3 price cut announced, but this is news worthy of a double-take just the same.

Monsters vs. Aliens

See? Pigs need not fly before a decent movie-based game comes along. Now that's a relief. So is Monsters vs. Aliens, mainly because it isn't priced like a sucker's bet.

MLB 09: The Show

As with MLB 09: The Show on PlayStation3 and PlayStation Portable, the PlayStation2 version builds on a solid foundation while also suffering a couple of newly introduced hitches. Still, as the least expensive of the three, it's well worth a looksee.

A boy and his sofa, the morality play

"Just 5 more minutes!" and "Just let me finish this level!" Families around the world hear these proclamations from kids when asked to put down their videogame controller. Small incentive: there's now a book for them to read.

Surprise, most gamers aren't geeks

For some, it's hard to take the videogame industry seriously when all it conjures is images of boys playing virtual soldier shooting aliens on the spare TV in the basement. Thing is, that image hasn't been accurate for a decade or two. And now, a new Ipsos study shows it to be completely false. Go figure.

NPD: Children, Boomers surpass young males in game market

According to the first-ever consumer report on video gaming, the standard as the young male as the quintessential gamer has forever changed. NPD's latest study of video gaming market reveals surprising results among seven unique gamer segments.

It's so not about the music, man, Guitar Hero gets sponsors

Activision and RedOctane just announced that the forthcoming Guitar Hero World Tour game will feature in-game sponsorship as rewards through exclusive partnerships with prominent music instrument and equipment manufacturers.

Craig, Dench, sign on for new Bond game

Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko and more have all signed on to provide their voices to Activision's new James Bond game, Quantum of Solace.